Senior Enterprise Architect

The Citco Group Limited • Charlotte, NC

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About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to join Citco’s
Architecture team. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for
defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture across applications,
platforms, data, cloud, and emerging technologies, with AI and agentic
automation as key enabling capabilities.

The role focuses on setting direction, standards, and guardrails to ensure
scalable, secure, and well-governed solutions across the organization..

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles
• Strong background in large-scale, distributed enterprise systems
• Proven experience designing cloud-native and hybrid architectures
• Hands-on understanding of data, integration, and platform architectures
• Experience incorporating AI and automation into enterprise solutions (not limited to AI platforms)
• Strong enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and governance experience
• Deep expertise in application, data, integration, and cloud architecture
• Strong programming background in Python and/or Node.js, with the ability to understand and guide implementation-level decisions
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native design patterns (compute, storage, networking, serverless, IAM, etc.)
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and risk considerations
• Experience with API-driven and event-driven architectures
• Data architecture, governance, and integration patterns
• Ability to translate strategy into executable architecture
• Clear technical communication with senior stakeholders
• AWS cloud platform (e.g., Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Step Functions, IAM)
• Development using Python and/or Node.js
• Large Language Models and GenAI technologies
• RAG architectures and implementation patterns
• Cloud AI services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Enterprise integration patterns
• Security and compliance frameworks
• Data architecture and governance

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, and platform domains
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures
• Ensure consistent adoption of enterprise patterns across technology initiatives
• Integrate AI, automation, and analytics capabilities into the broader enterprise architecture
• Align technology architecture with business strategy and long-term roadmap
• Provide architectural leadership across major enterprise initiatives
• Guide solution architects and engineering teams on architecture decisions
• Define reusable architectural patterns and shared platform capabilities
• Act as a design authority for complex, cross-domain solutions
• Balance innovation with stability, security, and operational maturity
• Establish governance models for platforms, integrations, data, and AI-enabled solutions
• Define security, compliance, and risk guardrails in collaboration with security and risk teams
• Review solution designs for alignment with enterprise standards
• Ensure architectural consistency across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem solutions
• Promote observability, resiliency, and operational readiness by design
• Review and approve AI solution designs
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards
• Identify opportunities for reusable components
• Guide teams on technical implementation approaches
• Evaluate new AI technologies and platforms
• Drive the evolution of Citco's AI platform capabilities
• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI/GenAI, automation, and data platforms
• Define how AI capabilities are responsibly embedded into enterprise solutions.
• Define roadmap for platform capabilities and features
• Guide integration with existing enterprise systems

Benefits

• A challenging and rewarding role in an award-winning global business.
• Opportunities for personal and professional career development.
• Great working environment, competitive salary and benefits, and opportunities for educational support.
• Be part of an industry leading global team, renowned for excellence.
• medical, dental, and vision coverage, short and long-term disability benefits, a retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, mental health and wellness support, parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed